Son of Former US President Donald Trump, Eric Trump, attends the second day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 16, 2024. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
Eric Trump likened Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to “spoiled apples” in a British television interview, where he added the U.S. “might not want them anymore.”
The 40-year-old scion’s comments to GB News come months after his father, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, indicated Harry’s admissions of past drug use could be considered in reviewing his U.S. visa.
In the interview broadcast Sunday, Eric Trump honored the British monarch while painting Harry and Markle as ingrates who rebuffed tradition when they rejected their roles in that “sacred institution” by moving to California in 2020.
“You can happily have those two,” he said. “We might not want them anymore. It feels like they’re on an island of their own.”
According to Eric Trump, no enterprise is without its outliers.
“You can have spoiled apples in every orchard,” he said, possibly referencing Markle’s lifestyle brand American Riviera Orchard.
Donald Trump hinted in March that he’d be open to looking into whether the 39-year-old Duke of Sussex lied about having used drugs on his visa application, which could compromise his status in the U.S. Harry confessed in his 2023 memoir “Spare” to having experimented with cocaine, cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms.
The former president boasts of having a long-running relationship with Great Britain’s royal family, but has been less than welcoming toward Prince Harry’s family. He went out of his way in 2020 to say the U.S. wouldn’t provide them with security under his presidency and challenged Markle to a “debate” in 2023.
Originally published at Brian Niemietz